An invitation to take part

- An Invitation to ethnic community groups and individuals to work with us

Ethnic community groups and individuals are invited to work with BEN on the BEN Rainbow Countryside Scheme and have the option to access training and support that lead to the BEN Rainbow Group accreditation.

- An invitation to provider organisations to work with us

Provider organisations are invited to work with BEN on the BEN Rainbow Countryside Scheme and have the option to access training and support that lead to the BEN Rainbow Site accreditation.

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Rainbow Office Locations

The office locations will be stable for the 5-year duration of the project. For the first 2 years we will target nearby areas, in the context of beneficiaries, as indicated below. There will be a review after 2 years to determine the next target beneficiary areas. During the 5 years, our work will fan out in order to cover all areas within the 9 regions of England.

Please note that from experience of working with ethnic groups, they are quite happy to go up to 2 hours each way on a day trip. There will also be residential trips. We expect that beneficiaries will in fact go beyond the region they are in and sometimes right across the country to key sites that are particularly inspirational.

The fact that ethnic minorities do not access many destinations at the moment is due to a continuing situation of lack of funds and transport. Many groups are very disadvantaged. Trips will be infrequent and very special for them, so this does not take them into a scenario of contributing to overuse of transport.

Newcastle – with participants representative of Newcastle and northern area of NEMiddlesbrough – with participants representative of Middlesbrough and southern area of NE

Yorkshire and Humberside

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Bradford – with participants representative of Leeds and Bradford and surrounding areasSheffield - with participants representative of Sheffield and surrounding areasHull - with participants representative of Hull and surrounding areas

West Midlands

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Birmingham - with participants representative of Birmingham and surrounding areas Wolverhampton - with participants representative of Black CountryCoventry - with participants representative of Coventry and WarwickshireStoke - with participants representative of northern region of WM

East Midlands

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Nottingham – with participants representative of Nottingham and surrounding areasDerby - with participants representative of Derby and surrounding areasLeicester - with participants representative of Leicester and surrounding areasNorthampton - with participants representative of southern area of EM

Brent – with participants representative of NW of LondonTower Hamlets – with participants representative of NE of LondonHounslow – with participants representative of SW of LondonLambeth – with participants representative of SE of London